Escape From New York Remake in Works From Scream Reboot Team

You usually are not experiencing post-apocalyptic déjà vu. Hollywood is, but once more, making an attempt to remake John Carpenter’s landmark 1981 movie, Escape From New York. This time, from the filmmaking staff behind Ready or Not and Scream, Radio Silence.

Deadline confirmed the information, which was reported 24 hours earlier on Giant Freaking Robot. The distinction between the studies is that Deadline doesn’t point out unique star Kurt Russell, whereas Robot says he’s set to return. Subsequent tales, on websites like Bloody Disgusting, say Russell isn’t connected to the movie, at the least proper now. John Carpenter is govt producing although. Because after all he’s.

There’s no phrase on what angle this remake will take contemplating a author has reportedly not even been employed but. So this challenge is a methods off, if it even occurs in any respect. Don’t neglect, after Fox received the rights to the franchise in 2015, a number of filmmakers have been connected or rumored to be excited by remaking the movie, with none getting it in entrance of digital camera. It’s nearly as if it’s a type of movies that shouldn’t be remade.

“It is very much the product of one brain and how are you going to replace Kurt Russell?” author Leigh Whannell advised io9 again in 2020 when he was eager about doing one thing with the property. “So I think I’m a little afraid of it and I want to approach it very carefully. If I was going to do something, I would have to know exactly how I was going to please the fans of the original.”

But that’s only one man’s opinion. Radio Silence (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, and Chad Villella) did a bang-up job taking a franchise followers thought was useless in Scream and bringing it again for not one, however two sequels (at the least.) Maybe this time it will get over the wall and comes out with the hostage.

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